Season 3 produced an outright team-score record, a new longest podium drought, a joint team-win benchmark and multiple entries near the top of the recovery and close-finish lists. The rankings below keep each claim attached to the field it beat.
The largest number is 266: Ferrari’s Mystery Race total, built from four wins and five podiums. It displaced Ferrari’s 207-point Baku round and VCARB’s 204 at Brazil to the next two rows.
Team records: 266 points, three wins and a 68-point pair
Red Bull’s three Bahrain victories matched the highest number of wins by one team in a round, joining Ferrari at Imola and Red Bull at Texas. Monza then produced 68 points from LKR Gerardo6 and Meowsy, second only to the 75-point Wadz51–Darth Ussh pairing at the Mystery Race.
Ferrari also inserted 198 Mexico points into third on the team-score list. Six podiums made that round a depth record of its own texture, even though 207 and 204 remained above it until the Mystery Race rewrote the scale.
Close finishes: 0.156, 0.222 and 0.585 seconds
MilitaryMaple18’s 0.156-second Bahrain win ranked second among IMS finishes at the time. PerfectPaulie88’s 0.222 at the Mystery Race entered fourth, and qwAsey reet’s 0.585 Las Vegas victory completed the final top 10.
Recoveries: 16 places to win, 15 to the podium, 15 to fifth
Meowsy’s P17-to-P1 Las Vegas drive gained 16 places and ranked second historically. The same driver had already gained 15 from P18 to P3 at the Mystery Race; kelenic 6233 matched 15 from P20 to P5 in the finale. Both 15-place entries share the third historical mark.
Podium waits: zoolander resets the benchmark at 13 starts
ELITE HEAT SHOW’s Bahrain return initially established the longest wait at 11 starts in the event-level comparison. Zoolander83 later returned at Monza after 13, finishing second from P6 and moving the season’s final benchmark two starts farther.
The point of the record book is not to spray ordinals over ordinary results. It is to show the ladder: 266 above 207 and 204; 13 above 10 and 10 in the final drought table; 16 behind only 17 among recoveries; every historical position visible beside its neighbours.
